Seres István: A Károlyi-huszárezred hadkiegészítése a Tiszántúlon Szegedinác Péró felkelése idején - Chronica Bekesiensis 3. (Békéscsaba, 2010)
Képek jegyzéke
bearer was György Lévay from Öcsöd (Békés County) who with two of his companions left the kurucs’ camp in Békés following the battle of Köröstarcsa on 29th of April. Lévay’s confession unfolded in details that during the fight four hussars from Szolnok were killed and two were captured by the kurucs. A sergeant was stabbed to death with a spiked dagger by the Szentandrás magistrate, the kurucs’ chief-sentry-master Mihály Vertesy himself, another hussar was killed by János Petes from Öcsöd, while two ones by the Szentandrás juror, kuruc captain István Szilassy. The captives were deprived of their weapons and uniforms and let go free. The uniforms taken from the seized hussars were put on by the insurgents. György Lévay stated in his confession that he was wounded on his left shoulder by his own corporal in Tarcsa, as he had changed his clothes after killing the four hussars and the kuruc corporal saw in him also a soldier from Szolnok. Ferenc Károlyi’s letter to his father on 14th of May reveals that having returned home from the battle in Tarcsa György Lévay was caught by no other than the Károlyi hussars. The short letter-citation indicates that Baron István Orczy, the commander of the volunteers directed against the rebels, and his troops arrived in the area of the revolt by more-day delay and were not able to do anything against the kurucs, though Orczy had been boasting of a captured kuruc flag as early as days before. This however was taken from the kurucs not by Orczy’s troops but an experienced Károlyi hussar who together with his two recruit companions struck several insurgents in Cibakháza. Orczy related in his letters that having arrived in Szolnok on 3rd of May he put under arrest more kurucs with a standard-bearer among them. The captives were detained in Szolnok, while the seized flag was sent immediately to Buda by the officers of Szolnok garrison. Orczy claimed that it was him who made Lévay and his three companions captured by the lieutenant of Cibakháza (!) and he himself cut the bullets out of the standard-bearer’s back. Lévay was prosecuted as an accusee of third rank in Buda but did not survive until the announcement of sentence. He with five of his companions, e.g. other the standard-bearers like György Tokay from Sarkad and János Tóth from Szentandrás, died in the tortures suffered in the prison. The wound received in Köröstarcsa appears to have contributed as well to Lévay’s death. Translated by Attila B. Kis 272
